Help Squash Natty Server Bugs

Mirroring a post from Ubuntu Server developer Dave Walker, If you're capable and willing to help squash some server bugs, your effort and contribution is really needed now! Join us on irc #ubuntu-server, ask around if you need help. Thanks in advance

Here is a list of current bugs that should hopefully be fixed for Natty release.  The bugs with "Not assigned to anyone :(", could really do  with someone volunteering to take.  Please feel free to assign yourself, if you are willing to take on working towards a fix. 

If you are an assignee, please make sure that the current status (and comments) accurately represent the status before tomorrows server team meeting. 

== Bugs for the server team == 

[655533] [likewise-open] [master] package likewise-open 5.4.0.42111-2ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 (http://pad.lv/655533) 

 * Bug Status: Confirmed 

 * Not assigned to anyone :( 

 * Last updated: 2011-04-18 

[726769] [eucalyptus] package eucalyptus-common 2.0.1 bzr1255-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 (http://pad.lv/726769) 

 * Bug Status: Confirmed 

 * Assigned to: Dave Walker 

 * Last updated: 2011-04-18 

[661453] [dovecot] dovecot.conf always shows as having been locally modified on update (http://pad.lv/661453) 

 * Bug Status: Confirmed 

 * Assigned to: Clint Byrum 

 * Last updated: 2011-04-18 

[745946] [cloud-init] cloud-final job did not run in ec2-automated-tests (http://pad.lv/745946) 

 * Bug Status: Confirmed 

 * Not assigned to anyone :( 

 * Last updated: 2011-04-18 

[759943] [mod-wsgi] mod_wsgi.so-3.2 gives errors (http://pad.lv/759943) 

 * Bug Status: Confirmed 

 * Not assigned to anyone :( 

 * Last updated: 2011-04-15 

[764391] [cobbler] cobbler fails to manage bind9  (http://pad.lv/764391) 

 * Bug Status: Confirmed 

 * Assigned to: James Page 

 * Last updated: 2011-04-18 

[745930] [cloud-init] cloud-init timeout waiting for metadata service on EC2 (http://pad.lv/745930) 

 * Bug Status: New 

 * Not assigned to anyone :( 

 * Last updated: 2011-04-15 

[760288] [Ubuntu] JeOS is oversized (http://pad.lv/760288) 

 * Bug Status: Confirmed 

 * Not assigned to anyone :( 

 * Last updated: 2011-04-15 

 == Bugs being worked on in other areas, more for information == 

[728088] [debian-installer] iscsi root with or without auth fails to boot (http://pad.lv/728088) 

 * Bug Status: Confirmed 

 * Assigned to: Colin Watson 

 * Last updated: 2011-04-14 

[747090] [linux] wrong return address sometimes pushed for INT in kvm (not qemu) (http://pad.lv/747090) 

 * Bug Status: Fix Committed 

 * Assigned to: Andy Whitcroft 

 * Last updated: 2011-04-18 

[566818] [plymouth] Cryptsetup passphrase prompt during boot: every character typed repeats the prompt (http://pad.lv/566818) 

 * Bug Status: Confirmed 

 * Assigned to: Surbhi Palande 

 * Last updated: 2011-04-16 

[580319] [upstart] dhcp3-server launches before upstart brings all interface, thus failing to start (http://pad.lv/580319) 

 * Bug Status: Triaged 

 * Assigned to: James Hunt 

 * Last updated: 2011-04-18 

[759545] [grub2] user prompted to update unmodified grub configuration during Ubuntu server upgrade (http://pad.lv/759545) 

 * Bug Status: New 

 * Last updated: 2011-04-18 

Fix Eucalyptus for Natty yourself

In a previous post I mentioned how the Ubuntu server community needs your help fixing some broken packages on the next shiny Ubuntu release "Natty". I wanted to see just how difficult can it be to actually fix those bugs, so I decided to go crunching on a couple. Much to my surprise, fixing those bugs turned out to be way much easier than I thought. I created a couple of patches, mostly just adding one parameter or moving things around to make the build process happy, submitted the branches for review, et voila it gets reviewed, merged, and the bug which is attached to your branch gets automatically closed. Quite an easy process indeed! Once the bug closes, you get an exceptionally warm fuzzy feeling that you just helped the world, contributed to making millions of Ubuntu users happy!

Which brings us to this post, I see the Eucalyptus package is broken on natty as well. The list of remaining packages is at: http://tinyurl.com/server-ftbfs As can be seen, the Eucalyptus packages are "High Importance", so this is quite a significant contribution from anyone who cares about the helping the cloud community (or the server community in general). I would like to encourage you to start fixing those bugs, if you'd like help the #ubuntu-motu channel should be very helpful